Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Foldin' State: "The Lacob Interview" Theory

In March, the Times Magazine

Which Times Magazine, the Quasi's?


I'll be darned.

titled, "What Happened When Venture Capitalists Took Over The Golden State Warriors," in which owner Joe Lacob touted the franchise as being "light-years ahead of probably every other team in structure, in planning, in how we're going to go about things."

"We're going to be a handful for the rest of the NBA to deal with for a long time," he said in the article.
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HUBRIS HAD NOT, until this point, been part of the public-facing game plan for the Warriors brass. An NBA team executive said of The New York Times Magazine piece, "Well, that didn't take long."

One well-credentialed leader in the field of organizational dynamics declined to speak of the Warriors because he said nothing would be as revealing as Lacob's "light-years" comments.
-Kevin Arnovitz, ESPN

You're telling me OKC's players read the Quasi? Read that article in the Quasi and got pissed? You must be a sports writer, am I correct?